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High supplies and low prices: Does the world really need more corn?
Monsanto Co is working to develop what it hopes will be North America’s fastest-maturing corn, allowing farmers to grow more ...
Many weed scientists reject summit with Monsanto to discuss mounting dicamba herbicide crisis
Monsanto Co. invited dozens of weed scientists to a summit this week to win backing for a controversial herbicide but ...
French farmers protest government’s opposition to extension of EU’s glyphosate herbicide license
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe reiterated Paris would vote against the European Commission’s proposal to extend for 10 years the license ...
Monsanto-Bayer merger now unlikely until 2018
German drugs and pesticides group Bayer said on Tuesday it was now likely to be early next year before it ...
Monsanto pushes back against Arkansas’ proposed dicamba herbicide restrictions
Monsanto Co filed a petition on Thursday [September 7] asking Arkansas agricultural officials to reject a proposed date next year ...
EPA mulling 2018 partial ban on dicamba spraying because of drift concerns
The U.S. environmental agency is considering banning sprayings of the agricultural herbicide dicamba after a set deadline next year, according ...
Dicamba fiasco: Are Monsanto’s labels too restrictive and confusing for farmers?
Dicamba, sold under different brand names by BASF and DuPont, can vaporize under certain conditions and the wind can blow ...
Monsanto barred university researchers from testing ‘drift’ of its new dicamba herbicide — now accused of damaging crops
New versions of the herbicide dicamba developed by Monsanto and BASF, according to farmers, have drifted across fields to crops ...
Did the National Cancer Institute withhold data showing no links between glyphosate and cancer?
The chairman of a congressional committee has asked the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explain why its National ...
Farmers’ ‘double whammy’: Drift damage from dicamba herbicide and then its subsequent ban
An advanced weed-killing chemical has twice come back to haunt Arkansas farmer John Weiss. The herbicide, known as dicamba, has ...
EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner: Glyphosate safe but herbicide’s reapproval unsure
The European Union will only extend its approval for the herbicide glyphosate if there is sufficient support from the bloc's ...
China approves import of Syngenta, Monsanto GMO corn but leaves four crop varieties in hiatus
China has approved two more genetically modified (GMO) crops for import, the Ministry of Agriculture said, the second such move ...
First US gene therapy nears: CAR-T leukemia treatment gets nod from FDA panel
Novartis AG's pioneering new cancer drug won enthusiastic support from a federal advisory panel on [July 12], paving the way for ...
California’s Prop 65 listing of herbicide glyphosate as carcinogen goes into effect July 7
Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list ...
Jury orders Syngenta to pay Kansas farmers $218 million for GMO corn losses
A U.S. jury on Friday [June 23] ordered Syngenta AG to pay $217.7 million to more than 7,000 Kansas farmers ...
China approves new varieties of GMO corn, soybeans for import from US
China approved two new varieties of genetically modified (GMO) crops for import June 12, after the world's top buyer of ...
IARC glyphosate bombshell: Scientist who lead review of herbicide withheld data showing no cancer link
When Aaron Blair sat down to chair a week-long meeting of 17 specialists at the International Agency for Research on ...
New GMO crop: Brazil approves insect resistant sugarcane for commercial use
Brazilian biosecurity agency CTNBio on Thursday [June 8] approved commercial use of a genetically modified sugarcane, setting a milestone for ...
Pests and pathogens cost global agriculture $540 billion a year
The spread of pests and pathogens that damage plant life could cost global agriculture $540 billion a year, according to ...
South Africa expects record GMO corn harvest this season
[Editor's note: More than 70% of corn grown in South Africa is genetically modified. So far, South Africa is the ...
China agrees to evaluate 8 GMO crops in trade deal with US, ending long delay
China's promise to evaluate eight varieties of U.S. genetically modified crops by the end of [May 2017] under a trade ...
EU to propose 10-year extension of glyphosate herbicide
The European Commission will propose extending by 10 years its approval for weed-killer glyphosate, used in Monsanto's Roundup, a spokeswoman ...
Global GM crop area rebounded in 2016 — increased 3% to new high of 457 million acres
Plantings of genetically modified (GMO) crops rebounded in 2016 from a decline the prior year, led by increased sowings in ...
China’s ‘consumer backlash’ against GMOs could spell crisis for US soybean farmers
A Chinese consumer backlash against genetically modified (GMO) crops is beginning to dent demand for soy oil, the nation's main ...
EU food safety chief: Critics of glyphosate safety finding are ‘playing politics’, undermining science
Politicians who attack the EU agency that ruled the weedkiller glyphosate probably does not cause cancer are in danger of ...
World’s largest pork producer to market hogs for pig-human organ transplants
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, has established a separate bioscience unit to expand its role in supplying pig ...
New EU independent herbicide glyphosate study shows no toxic effects or genetic changes
Results of a new animal study into possible health risks of the weedkiller glyphosate will be published in time to ...
DNA ‘rock science’ helps wring more crude oil from shale rock, boosting supply
A small group of U.S. oil producers has been trying to exploit advances in DNA science to wring more crude ...
